Packaging Recycling Guide
Here is a guide to help you sort our packaging after you've finished the formula. The information is based on OPRL (On Pack Recycling Label) rules for the UK recycling streams.
A few golden rules before you start:
Ensure there is no product residue.
Even as little as 10% of the formulation left inside a tube or jar can hinder recyclability. You can part-cut tubes to take out that last bit of product (for your own benefit too) and then rinse. Don’t worry about drying them.
Remove pumps and pipettes from glass or plastic bottles.
Pumps are not currently recyclable because of the small metal springs inside that can damage the machines in the processing facilities. Pipettes are made of mixed materials that are not easy to separate.
Leave caps on bottles and screw-top tubes
Small caps, even if made of recyclable materials, will fall through the machines in the recycling facilities. But, if left on the main packaging, they will get separated and recycled in the correct material stream. This also goes for travel size products.
Recycle all glass and plastic bottles
All of our plastic bottles are made from widely recyclable PET (Press & Clear, Press & Glow, Eyes & Lips Micellar Cleanse) and HDPE (Calmwise Soothing Cleanser, Gentle Cleanse, Micellar Mousse, Clarifying Foam). Our travel size bottles can also be recycled - if the pumps are removed. All of our glass bottles are widely recyclable.
Recycle flip-top and screw-top tubes.
Only the flip-top and screw-top tubes can be recycled. Unfortunately, the airless tubes cannot be recycled because the pump cannot be detached from the tube.
Recycle all cartons and e-commerce mailers within the paper stream.
All of our outer cartons are recyclable, and so are the mailing boxes our products are sent in.
Reuse
Press & Glow and Press & Clear pump - can be used up to 5 times. Just order the refill bottle instead of the original version including the pump. Save money and the materials from going to waste too!
Recycle at home
Tubes with a flip or screw-top, plastic and glass bottles, cartons, aluminium sample tubes and mailers.
Flip top
Screw top
Plastic bottles
Glass bottles
White PP jars
Aluminium sample tubes
Ensure they are completely empty, reinsert the cap and recycle with metals or mixed recycling.
Not currently recycled
Please put these products in your household waste bin.
Frosted jars
Our frosted jars are not currently recyclable, but we are working on replacing them with a recyclable alternative.
Airless tubes & bottles
Due to the sensitivity of our formulations, we need to use airless tubes to ensure the optimal potency and power of our active ingredients once the packaging has been opened. The tubes themselves are recyclable but, because the pumps cannot be removed, the whole packaging becomes unrecyclable. We are working on developing airless pumps that can be recycled. For the moment, these tubes will need to go into the general waste.
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